That’s exactly what happened Saturday night when two female hikers found themselves 3-4 kilometers further north than they had planned. Danks says they were lost and unprepared, which led to a rescue team of 12 people staying out all night to retrieve them.

So what should change?

“It’s not a really simply, straight forward thing to implement and I think as a team we’re going to be having our general meeting in September and it’ll be a topic of discussion to see how this could potentially work for North Shore Rescue. I think another important thing to consider is all the other teams in the province are volunteer teams, we all have the same struggles with sustainable funding and I really hope it wouldn’t just be something for North Shore Rescue, it’d be a much broader funding model that would cover all the teams.”

Jon McComb asks, if the provincial government is teaming up with the tourism industry to draw more people to B.C.’s great outdoors, shouldn’t looking after much needed rescue services become more of a priority?

Danks says, definitely.

“The amount the call volume is increasing in the last couple years, its not sustainable for volunteers to continue at this rate.”